Sarah Dessen Quotes
That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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I have asked my mom and my sister a couple times if I should post something or not. Or if they think a video is funny.
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Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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To survive is to win.
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Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.
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It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.
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I don't like being weak in front of my mum or anyone for that matter. I don't like crying.
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All of my businesses are profitable.
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I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
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Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long pieces hang in the front. I'd also wear really dark eyeliner and bright pink eyeshadow. For some reason, my friends and I thought it was really fashionable to wear a short tie with our uniforms.
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I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
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Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.
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Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
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Preaching styles and people being slain in the spirit and things like that. Now it doesn't happen in all black churches, and it happens sometimes in white churches, right? But on average they're quite a bit different.
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One of the peculiar features of history is that time always erodes advantage. Every invention sooner or later erodes advantage. Every invention sooner or later leads to a counter-invention.
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I reached the stage where I was afraid to wiggle my leg, but then I thought 'why shouldn't I?' It's what I do and now I know how to turn an audience on again.
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That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about.
